Small Things Like These

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Just been to see Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These, based on the Claire Keegan novel. I loved the book so was excited about the film and it didn't disappoint. Its a really beautiful, sad, quiet film. Not much happens, there's not much dialogue but its tells the story clearly and powerfully. Cillian Murphy seems to have the weight of the world on his shoulders. Highly recommend

I'm going to see it with DD. I listened to the adaptation on Radio 4 a couple of years ago and it really stayed with me.

Hope you enjoy it @Soupwithstring. It might be too lowkey and restrained for some people but I thought it captured the sense of the book really well.

Thank you - loved the book and didn't know there was a film!

Saw it today, thought it was great.
I felt it was better if you had read the book, otherwise maybe some parts unclear.
Cillian Murphy was wonderful!

I've read the book and the film doesn't disappoint

It's excellent and very emotional

It was excellent, especially Emily Watson. Cillian Murphy was very good, but I don't think he looks ordinary enough for the role.

Emily Watson was ... terrifying. Loved the book and the film, but agree it's easier to understand having read the book.

I had to choose between this and Heretic and Hugh Grant won 😁 But I adored the book and was shocked that it has been made into a film, shocked in a good way. So I'm planning to see it next week. There's a few good films around at the moment, or due to come out which makes a nice change

I loved it . Cillian almost too handsome but it's a very moving story

Saw this yesterday and loved it.

i don’t usually enjoy scenes with lo ng pauses and not much dialogue but Cillian Murphy is such a fabulous actor that no words were needed when he wasn’t speaking. It was all in the face, demeanour etc.

I also love that the woman playing his wife played Crispina in The Magdalene Sisters about 20 years ago.

Agree that he wasn't the man I'd pictured when reading... maybe they could have aged him a bit. Otherwise wonderful. The little nostalgic details I this and The Quiet Girl, also Claire Keegan, are beautiful. My husband thinks his wife will support him. I don't. Hard to believe it was so recent and so close to home.

Eileen Walsh is a genius. And was in the original stage Disco Pigs with Cillian M before being dropped for the film, which I still think is a crying shame — she’s always worked, but her career never hit the same heights as his, and she’s ever bit as good an actor. It’s the fist time they’ve acted together in 28 years.

I haven’t seen STLT yet, but every time I see a poster with Cillian looking oppressed in his donkey jacket, I agree with @Sausagenbacon that he looks like the bit of a film where the stunning female lead is temporarily costumed/made up to look plain. He must be the least likely 1980s coalman ever.

Cillian Murphy ".....He must be the least likely 1980s coalman ever."

Love it @SlightlyGoneOff

I had no complaints! He was very easy on the eye 😄

I loved it. You could feel the cold, and it was bleak.
I think his wife would not have been pleased and wondered how he would have been treated by the townspeople?

I’m the odd one out here as I hadn’t read the book but I absolutely loved the film - so much said with so few words; and stunningly shot and lit. Cillian Murphy isn’t my type, so I felt he was credibly exhausted looked; and I absolutely loved the contrast with the glorious carnage of his girls and the silences when he’s out. I saw it a few weeks ago and am still thinking of it most days.

I'm watching this now , I very rarely watch things about the laundries as its too upsetting but I read the book when my eldest was doing it at school and it's a good book. It has the despair of the 80s in Ireland down to a tee.